| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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History of computing
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History of computing.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references.nd index. |
| Contents |
Name "Mark I" -- Introducing Howard Aiken / I. Bernard Cohen -- Aiken's Machines -- Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine / Howard Aiken -- Aiken's First Machine: The IBM ASCC/Harvard Mark I / Robert Campbell -- Constructing the IBM ASCC (Harvard Mark I) / Charles Bashe -- Programming Mark I / Richard Bloch -- Mark II, an Improved Mark I / Robert Campbell -- Aiken's Alternative Number System / Henry Tropp -- Aiken's Program of Instruction and Training -- Aiken and the Harvard "Comp Lab" / Frederick Brooks Jr. -- Aiken as a Teacher / Peter Calingaert -- Aiken's Program in a Harvard Setting / Gregory Welch (concluding note by Adam Rabb Cohen) -- Recollections -- Commander Aiken and My Favorite Computer / Grace Hopper -- Reminiscences of Aiken during World War II and Later / Richard Bloch -- Reminiscences of the Boss / Anthony Oettinger -- A View from Overseas / Maurice Wilkes -- Aiken at Home, 1973 / Henry Tropp -- In His Own Words -- Aiken in His Own Words / Gregory Welch -- Appendixes -- Specifications of Aiken's Four Machines / Robert Campbell, Peter Strong -- Aiken's Doctoral Students and Their Dissertations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aiken, Howard H. (Howard Hathaway), 1900-1973.
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Aiken, Howard H. (Howard Hathaway), 1900-1973. |
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Aiken, Howard H., 1900-1973 (Aiken, Howard Hathaway) |
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Computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
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Computer engineers. |
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United States. |
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Computers -- History.
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Computers. |
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History. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003.
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Welch, Gregory W.
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Campbell, Robert V. D.
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| Added Title |
Making numbers |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Makin' numbers. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262032635 (DLC) 98043964 (OCoLC)39785347 |
| ISBN |
0585130434 (electronic book) |
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9780585130439 (electronic book) |
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0262032635 |
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